No more Mr. Tough Guy: Trump backs off threats to restart bombing, waits for Iran to get its act together

No more Mr. Tough Guy: Trump backs off threats to restart bombing, waits for Iran to get its act together


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EXTEND THE CEASEFIRE AND WAIT: In an afternoon post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump revealed that nothing he said over the past few days reflected the reality of what was happening in an effort to end the Iran war.

No, the Iranians had not agreed to a second round of negotiations. No, Vice President JD Vance was not leaving for Islamabad. No, Iran hadn’t “agreed to everything.” No, the U.S. would not be “going in with Iran with lots of excavators,” to retrieve the “nuclear dust.” No, “lots of bombs” will not “start going off,” if the ceasefire expired without a deal. At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Trump threw up his hands, and blamed Iran for the “fractured” government that was the inevitable result of a methodical assassination campaign carried out by the U.S. and Israel to eliminate all of Iran’s top leaders.

“We have been asked to hold our Attack on

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